Los Angeles history

Jan. 26, 1958

January 26, 2008 | 7:07
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Sepulveda and Centinela is flooded after a heavy rain ... Officials reveal that cattle and milk in the British countryside were contaminated by radioactive material unleashed when an Oct. 10, 1957, fire destroyed a plutonium pile ... And the chairman of the New York Central Railroad commits suicide in the billiard parlor of his 25-room mansion.